Efficient musical noise suppression for speech enhancement system
Thomas Esch, Peter Vary · 2009
Noise reduction techniques that are relying on spectral weighting rules often generate annoying musical noise artifacts in the processed signal. In this paper, we present a postfilter (PF) for the spectral weighting gains that is capable of reducing musical noise in a simple but efficient way. It includes a robust detector for speech pauses and low SNR conditions and adaptively smoothes the weighting gains over frequency based on soft-decisions. Objective and subjective measurements show consistent improvements if the postfilter is applied to conventional noise reduction techniques.